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    Wow. Europa Park is how you run a park! Extended openings till 7 when the longest queue is like 20 minutes, throughputs meaning your queue barely stops moving, rides hidden all over the place and so m

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  • Europa-Park is a multi day resort with absolutely LOADS to do. I would suggest starting with Matterhorn Blitz, as it's the lowest throughput coaster on park (about 960pph). However, if it's not school

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Hey guys!

 

I'm going to Europa for a short break of 2 full park days in April and am wondering what the best choice is for a hotel? Are the on-site hotels much more expensive than off-site ones and are they worth it?

 

Anybody have any recommendations? Not looking for anything fancy!

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I'm no expert but if your after the full Europa experience, go for a Europa Park hotel like Bell Rock or Collesseo [there's 4 in total].

 

Failing that, there's the camping resort for a cheape option. There's also lots of hotels and BnB's in the surrounding village [Rust] which most aren't more than 15 minutes walking for a cheaper option. It may be worth looking at sites like Tripadvisor, Expedia and boooking.com for more info.

 

If you're just after a cheap trip, go for the latter option as you are still allowed in the main hotel complex after hours too.

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I am a big advocate of the Europa park hotels, they give you a true resort experience.

 

Have a look at the dates you are going for Bell rock and see if they have an economy room going if you want to save a few quid. the only difference with these rooms is that you don't get a view, it's literally a brick wall outside your window.

 

They also do these at Coloseo but the rooms are right under the bar so could get noisy!

 

I understand all the B&B's in the area are of an excellent standard, you can find one easily through booking.com.

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Thanks for this, I'll probably stay off-site if the hotels are only 15 min walk from the park!

 

What's the best thing to do in terms of tickets, buy straight from Europa website or is there a better option for a two-day pass?

 

Also, I'm aware that at port Aventura the fast-pass is good value, is it like that at Europa and would it be worth it in mid-April?

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I'm looking at going 19th and 20th April - is this a busy period/will everything likely be open?

 

Any recommendations for close, cheap off-site accomodation?

 

Also, I'm flying into Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden airport (64km away from park), what's the best/cheapest way to get to the park from there?

 

Finally, is the best way to get a two-day ticket online or on the gate or through a third party?

 

Thanks

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Wow. Europa Park is how you run a park! Extended openings till 7 when the longest queue is like 20 minutes, throughputs meaning your queue barely stops moving, rides hidden all over the place and so many shows! Such an impressive park all round. The areas have animatronics just dotted about, my favourite being the fisherman in Scandinavia who sets fire to his house.

I'll try and get a full trip report written up in the next week, but a small review.

Silver Star: Decent, best bit for me is the ending s bend, the up down bit did nothing for me.

Eurosat: Just what. Bonkers, shame we have X

Euromir: Another just what. Wasn't a big fan due to the backwards nature.

Matterhorn: Standard, cool queue though

Poseidon: Really liked this, probably my guilty pleasure!

Pegasus: short but sweet

Alpenexpress: Brilliant surprise, great gem

Arthur: Incredible family dark ride/coaster thing

Atlantica Supersplash: Not a lot going for it

Blue Fire: More in the world please, Mack Megacoasters everywhere. Such a smooth ride with some great elements

Wodan: Loved it! The whole indoor queue is incredible, really sets the tone and the ride is great.

Shows were all good, apart from the odd smoking bubble magic one, really cool parade and the opening and closing show are good fun.

Various dark rides are good, bench is just well, bench. The rest are cool.

Operations impeccable. On Sunday, park was pretty quiet and open till 7:30, about 5:30 a huge hail storm hit literally emptying the park giving us 3 rerides on Blue Fire back row. They had taken Wodan and Silver Star down to one train as they expected it to stay empty. Wodan started getting a queue (only ride to always seemingly have one) so they added the second train back on. It's funny, their operations aren't really any different as they still have baggage holds in the station and stuff, just the staff are always on the ball and not jabbering away to each other. And no fastrack really helps the queues move better.

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6 hours ago, Mitchada04 said:

Operations impeccable. On Sunday, park was pretty quiet and open till 7:30, about 5:30 a huge hail storm hit literally emptying the park giving us 3 rerides on Blue Fire back row. They had taken Wodan and Silver Star down to one train as they expected it to stay empty. Wodan started getting a queue (only ride to always seemingly have one) so they added the second train back on. It's funny, their operations aren't really any different as they still have baggage holds in the station and stuff, just the staff are always on the ball and not jabbering away to each other. And no fastrack really helps the queues move better.

Glad you had a good time. It's a great park which is enjoyable just to be in.

The staff are very fast. It also does help that the park is a showcase for Mack and as such the rides are designed to have (in general) minimal amount of fuss operationally. I think Mack requested seatbeltless Wodan trains for this reason.

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